Edible Garden Weeds of Canada and Edible Wild Fruits and Nuts of Canada are the most elegant and informative books on wild edibles. Edible Native Plants of the Rocky Mountains is the best on the Rockies and some more southern species. Peterson’s has a cozy appendix—edibles are clustered by old fields, waste grounds, swamps, thickets, still water, and (like Japanese haiku) by season. Identification remains difficult. Roots digs the deepest into specialty foraging: good drawings, botany, Indian uses, medicinal uses, harvesting, drying, and preparing of roots, tubers, corms, and rhizomes.
